Melanie Swan focuses on supporting Plan International’s teams working across four regions (Americas and the Caribbean/Middle East and Eastern and Southern Africa/West and Central Africa/Asia and Pacific) and development and humanitarian settings to progress gender-transformative ECD programming, with particular emphasis on play-based early learning and parenting/caregiver education and support programs, including male engagement.  Prior to joining Plan in 2001, she worked as a physician (in the UK and with DFID in the Solomon Islands, and obtained a Masters (Hon) in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/London School of Economics. Prior to her current role, Melanie worked as the health/ECD advisor at the country level (Brazil), regional level (Latin America) at Plan.